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CHINESE 9 (CONTEMPORARY CHINESE AND CHINA A : CRITICAL ISSUES)

CHI3009

Not currently offered

Credit points: 15

Subject outline

This subject is designed to allow pre-honours and other high level students to further extend their professional Chinese abilities and orient them in China related studies. Topics comprise migration and urbanization, environment protection, revisiting traditional Chinese values, Chinese culture and Chinese overseas. It particularly focuses on the training of skills in social sciences research in Chinese primary source, as well as translation in primary data from Chinese into English and from English into Chinese. It also features as online and multimedia based collaborative teaching and learning experience.

SchoolSchool of Humanities & Social Sciences

Credit points15

Subject Co-ordinatorYangbin Chen

Available to Study Abroad StudentsYes

Subject year levelYear Level 3 - UG

Exchange StudentsYes

Subject particulars

Subject rules

Prerequisites CHI2008 or CHI3ADB or CHI1AD6 or CHI2AD6 or CHI3AD6 or co-ordinator's approval

Co-requisitesN/A

Incompatible subjects CHI1CPA, CHI2CPA, CHI3CPA, CHI3CCA

Equivalent subjectsN/A

Special conditionsN/A

Readings

Resource Type

Title

Resource Requirement

Author and Year

Publisher

Readings

Module of readings prepared by the lecturer

Prescribed

N/A

N/A

Graduate capabilities & intended learning outcomes

01. Ability to formulate a critical argument on the social, cultural and political issues in contemporary China.

Activities:

Presentation, group debates and short essay writing exercises

Related graduate capabilities and elements:

Speaking
(Speaking)

Teamwork
(Teamwork)

Creative Problem-solving
(Creative Problem-solving)

Inquiry/ Research
(Inquiry/ Research)

Critical Thinking
(Critical Thinking)

Writing
(Writing)

02. Ability to generally review the literature and explain the social, cultural and political issues in contemporary Chinese society.

Activities:

Presentations and debates in class activities, reading comprehension questions in mid-semester and final examinations.

Related graduate capabilities and elements:

Writing
(Writing)

Speaking
(Speaking)

Teamwork
(Teamwork)

Inquiry/ Research
(Inquiry/ Research)

Creative Problem-solving
(Creative Problem-solving)

Critical Thinking
(Critical Thinking)

03. Ability to use Chinese language to make a preliminary social science inquiry in the topics regarding contemporary Chinese social, cultural and political issues.

Activities:

themed short presentations and debated in class activities, and writings during mid semester and final examinations.

Related graduate capabilities and elements:

Creative Problem-solving
(Creative Problem-solving)

Speaking
(Speaking)

Inquiry/ Research
(Inquiry/ Research)

Critical Thinking
(Critical Thinking)

Teamwork
(Teamwork)

04. Ability to work with a partner or as part of a team to perform oral or written tasks

Activities:

Group presentation on researched topics

Related graduate capabilities and elements:

Inquiry/ Research
(Inquiry/ Research)

Speaking
(Speaking)

Critical Thinking
(Critical Thinking)

Creative Problem-solving
(Creative Problem-solving)

Teamwork
(Teamwork)

Writing
(Writing)

05. Deliver a persuasive Chinese speech upon a themed topic.

Activities:

Oral presentation and class debate activities

Related graduate capabilities and elements:

Creative Problem-solving
(Creative Problem-solving)

Critical Thinking
(Critical Thinking)

Speaking
(Speaking)

Inquiry/ Research
(Inquiry/ Research)

Teamwork
(Teamwork)

06. Write argumentative texts on studied topics, developing a line of argument, and orientation in Chinese-English two way translation practice